In prep of the babies nursery (which is currently a home office) I was cleaning off my bookshelf and made a pile of books to get rid of/donate. This pile was transferred from the home office to the dining room where there, it continued to sit for a few weeks before I got around to dropping the donations.
Then one day I was chatting with a friend from work and she mentioned her new reading obsession was this book called Hunger Games. It sounded familiar and I asked her what it was about (it was about time I found out what the heck this book was about). She told me it was about "kids killing other kids in this fight for their life". Well, then I was GLAD I was donating it, this book sounded AWFUL! But she immediately followed up by saying it is really good and she can't put it down, "it wasn't as bad as it sounded".
So now I was curious..I came home and started reading Hunger Games. It made it out of my donation pile and on to the couch with me one afternoon, and can I just tell you I was HOOKED!
Let me say, this book is about children killing other children, which sounds awful, and the whole concept of it is, but its a fight for their lives, and as you read you want to fight for them too. You get so attached to these characters, and quickly you become addicted to their struggles, their story, their journey through the Hunger Games.
I have plowed through the first book and bought the second on my Nook last night and start reading it already!
Has anyone read this book? Or contemplated reading it like I did because of what the context was going to be?
They are making this 3 book series a movie, and I have to say I am intrigued!
This book definitely veers away from my typical reading choices of happy love stories, but their is moments of happy, and there are moments of love and these characters are just plain addicting!
Check out the Hunger Games and let me know what you think!
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